The first season of ‘Beau Sejour’ was shown on Netflix and set in a hotel.
A host of new Flemish TV series, at script stage and in production, were pitched today at Connext, the Flanders Image industry event in Ghent.
Flemish TV is having a moment thanks to the international success of shows like Tabula Rasa and 13 Commandments. International companies attending Connext to scout new series this year included Netflix, Attraction Distribution, Dynamic Television, Global Screen, Global Series Network, Just Film, Serie Series, Series Mania, Wild Bunch TV and Zdf.
Some of the top pitches were A Good Year,...
A host of new Flemish TV series, at script stage and in production, were pitched today at Connext, the Flanders Image industry event in Ghent.
Flemish TV is having a moment thanks to the international success of shows like Tabula Rasa and 13 Commandments. International companies attending Connext to scout new series this year included Netflix, Attraction Distribution, Dynamic Television, Global Screen, Global Series Network, Just Film, Serie Series, Series Mania, Wild Bunch TV and Zdf.
Some of the top pitches were A Good Year,...
- 10/11/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Hottest presentations of upcoming Flemish films also include multicultural family film Binti; Patrice Toye’s Tench; and Gust van den Berghe’s Rain Anyway.
The word on everyone’s lips at this year’s Connext, the industry event organised by Flanders Image, was, “What will be the next Girl?”
Last year, Lukas Dhont’s transgender story was presented as a Work In Progress at Connext and is now one of the most lauded films of 2018, winning the Camera d’Or at Cannes and now representing Belgium in the foreign-language Oscar race.
It’s wildly different than Girl, but the buzziest...
The word on everyone’s lips at this year’s Connext, the industry event organised by Flanders Image, was, “What will be the next Girl?”
Last year, Lukas Dhont’s transgender story was presented as a Work In Progress at Connext and is now one of the most lauded films of 2018, winning the Camera d’Or at Cannes and now representing Belgium in the foreign-language Oscar race.
It’s wildly different than Girl, but the buzziest...
- 10/10/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Hottest presentations of upcoming Flemish films also include multicultural family film Binti; Patrice Toye’s Tench; and Gust van den Berghe’s Rain Anyway.
The word on everyone’s lips at this year’s Connext, the industry event organized by Flanders Image, was, “What will be the next Girl?”
Last year, Lukas Dhont’s transgender story was presented as a Work In Progress at Connext and is now one of the most lauded films of 2018, winning the Camera d’Or at Cannes and now representing Belgium in the foreign Oscar race.
It’s wildly different than Girl, but the buzziest...
The word on everyone’s lips at this year’s Connext, the industry event organized by Flanders Image, was, “What will be the next Girl?”
Last year, Lukas Dhont’s transgender story was presented as a Work In Progress at Connext and is now one of the most lauded films of 2018, winning the Camera d’Or at Cannes and now representing Belgium in the foreign Oscar race.
It’s wildly different than Girl, but the buzziest...
- 10/10/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Connext pitches for new Flemish films also include cycling drama and plastic surgery-themed horror.
Johan Heldenbergh, best known from Belgian hit The Broken Circle Breakdown, will lead the cast of My Dad Is A Sausage, a family drama pitched today at Flanders Image’s Connext event in Ghent.
Anouk Fortunier will direct what she calls a “buddy movie with a father and daughter”; Heldenbergh plays a father who is depressed in his job as a banker and decides to leave that career to become an actor. His wife, a CEO, is concerned about his plans, but his 11-year-old-daughter Zoe realises...
Johan Heldenbergh, best known from Belgian hit The Broken Circle Breakdown, will lead the cast of My Dad Is A Sausage, a family drama pitched today at Flanders Image’s Connext event in Ghent.
Anouk Fortunier will direct what she calls a “buddy movie with a father and daughter”; Heldenbergh plays a father who is depressed in his job as a banker and decides to leave that career to become an actor. His wife, a CEO, is concerned about his plans, but his 11-year-old-daughter Zoe realises...
- 10/8/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Eisenstein in Guanajuato among ten productions to receive support from the Screen Flanders economic fund.
Ten productions have received funding from the Screen Flanders economic fund, including Peter Greenaway’s feature Eisenstein in Guanajuato.
Finnish actor Elmer Bäck is attached to star as the pioneering Russian filmmaker in Greenaway’s film about the short-lived but passionate love affair between Eisenstein and his guide in Mexico.
The funding body gave out €2.2m ($3m) to the projects which will spend part of their budget in the Flanders region.
Amounts per project vary between € 90,000 ($123,000) and €400,000 ($546,680) per project.
The Screen Flanders fund has processed three calls since its launch in 2012. A total of 40 applications have been approved for a total of €9.2 million ($12.5 million) repayable support.
The 10 projects to receive Screen Flanders support in this call:
Bevergem Dir: Gilles Coulier; Main/Belgian prod: De Wereldvrede (Be); Be; fictionBloed, zweet en tranen Dir: Diederick Koopal; Main prod: Lemming Film (Nl); Belgian co-prod: A Private...
Ten productions have received funding from the Screen Flanders economic fund, including Peter Greenaway’s feature Eisenstein in Guanajuato.
Finnish actor Elmer Bäck is attached to star as the pioneering Russian filmmaker in Greenaway’s film about the short-lived but passionate love affair between Eisenstein and his guide in Mexico.
The funding body gave out €2.2m ($3m) to the projects which will spend part of their budget in the Flanders region.
Amounts per project vary between € 90,000 ($123,000) and €400,000 ($546,680) per project.
The Screen Flanders fund has processed three calls since its launch in 2012. A total of 40 applications have been approved for a total of €9.2 million ($12.5 million) repayable support.
The 10 projects to receive Screen Flanders support in this call:
Bevergem Dir: Gilles Coulier; Main/Belgian prod: De Wereldvrede (Be); Be; fictionBloed, zweet en tranen Dir: Diederick Koopal; Main prod: Lemming Film (Nl); Belgian co-prod: A Private...
- 1/9/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
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